Heidi and I have only one desk in our home office suitable for working at and of course, that’s where our PC lies. I also have a laptop that I use much more frequently and I regulary sit at the desk to use it. Anyone that uses a laptop knows that your productivity reduces dramatically when you use the laptop’s keyboard (too cramped) and touch pad (not as effective as a mouse) so whenever I’m at the desk, I unplug the keyboard and mouse from the desktop to plug it into my laptop. You can imagine how fun that gets. Introduce usb share switch hub.
So I bought this usb switch hub and I’m loving it. I plugged my usb keyboard, mouse and printer into the hub and connected it to both the desktop and the laptop. No more reaching, unplugging, plugging and getting tangled in the process. Nope… now I just push a button and the controls are mine. Push the button again, and the controls are back on desktop.
If I wanted to use my desktop’s monitor for both computers, I would’ve got a kvm switch but with our setup, I actually prefer to use my laptop’s monitor.